IX. SANCTUS, SANCTUS, SANCTUS 331

St. Bartholomew are (except for some slight variety of colour) both dressed alike, and wear turbans. Behind the figures is in each group a building, also characteristic architecturally of the given country. In two instances there is seen a tree growing out of this building, namely, in the case of Palestine and in that of Achaia; but whether or no with any special meaning or allusion may be doubtful.

The inscriptions are as follows (see ante, § 94):-

SCS IOHES EVG BAPTIZAI EFESO

S. IACOB MINORI JUDEA

S. PHVLIPI FRIGIA

S. MATHEV’I ETIOPIA

S. SIMEONI EGIPT

S. TOMASIN INDIA

S. ANDREI ACHAIA

S. PETRV’IN ROMA

S. BARTOLOMEV’I INDIA

S. TADEV’I MESOPOTAMIA

S. MATIASI PALESTIN

SCS MARCUS EVSI ALESANDRIA

156. In this list, most careful reference is made, as has been said, to the various traditions concerning the places of each Apostle’s special ministry, the main tradition being always followed in cases of doubt. Thus, St. John was bishop of Ephesus; St. James the Less bishop of Jerusalem, where he received St. Paul, and introduced him to the Church; St. Philip laboured in Phrygia, and is said to have died at Hierapolis; St. Matthew chiefly in Ethiopia; St. Simeon in Egypt; and St. Thomas (though this may be by confusion with another Thomas) is said to have preached in India and founded the Church at Malabar, where his tomb is shown, and “Christians of St. Thomas” is still a name for the Church. So, again, St. Andrew preached in Achaia, and was there crucified at Patræ; the connection of St. Peter with Rome needs no comment; both Jerome and Eusebius assign India to St. Bartholomew; St. Thaddæus or Jude preached in Syria and Arabia, and died at Edessa;

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